Post Docs

Saheli Sarkar Saheli earned her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and her M.S. from Drexel University. While at Case Western, Saheli worked in the group of Prof. Harihara Baskaran on cellular migration. Saheli is working with the Payne and Kemp labs to understand redox activity inside cells.

Debjyoti Bandyopadhyay Debjyoti earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Syracuse University with Prof. Yan-Yeung Luk. Debjyoti has worked on the fabrication of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of chiral polyol-terminated alkanethiols on gold. In the Payne Lab, Debjyoti is working on bioconjugation and lysosomal transport.

Alexandra Hill Alexandra earned her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Technology from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany with Prof. Karsten Mäder. studying the controlled release of nanosuspensions from osmotic devices. In the Payne Lab, she is starting a project focused on the interaction of biomedically relevant nanoparticles with cells.

Josh Morris Josh earned his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin with Prof. Xiaoyang Zhu investigating organic photovoltaics with non-linear optical microscopy. In the Payne lab, he is working on the biological synthesis of PEDOT:PSS.

Srikant Iyer Srikant earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry and Chemical Biology from Cornell University with Prof Ulrich Wiesner synthesizing multicolor fluorescent dye-based silica nanoparticles. In the Payne group, he is working on characterizing nanoparticle-protein interactions and the effect of cellular membrane potential.

Graduate Students

Candace Fleischer Candace earned her M.S. and B.S. in Chemistry from Western Washington University. In the Payne Lab, she is studying nanoparticle-protein interactions.

Scott Thourson Scott earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Bradley University. He will be working with both the Payne lab and the Forest lab from the School of Mechanical Engineering. Scott is interested in translating current nanoparticle and drug delivery studies to in vivo applications.

Rotation Students

Undergraduate Students

Chelsea Thompson Chelsea is a 4th year Biochemistry major studying nanoparticle-cell interactions as a function of nanoparticle surface modification.

Nina Mohebbi Nina is a 2nd year Biomedical Engineering major who is working with the Platt Lab (BME) on ways to image lysosome secretion.

Edward Zhang Edward is a 4th year Electrical Engineering major working on electrically modeling cells in order to facilitate the cellular incorporation of conducting polymers.

Lab Technicians

Emilie Warren Emilie is a graduate of Georgia Tech with a B.S. in Biochemistry and a minor in Spanish. She is currently studying the effect that cellular binding of nanoparticles has on the transmembrane potential.

Past Students

Syeda Anum(Summer 11, REU from Northeastern University)
Syeda is currently a research assistant at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Jenna Tomlinson(Summer 08, REU from Grand Valley State University)
Jenna is a Ph.D. student in the Program in Biomedical Science at the University of Michigan Medical School in the lab of Prof. Pat O'Brien.